The Most Critical Element in Every Sales Effort

by Thomas A. Freese

According to Thomas Freese, whose Question-Based Selling system has been adopted and implemented by thousands of salespeople in companies all over the world, YOU are the biggest differentiator between you and your competitors. In Sell Yourself First, he shows how to leverage personal assets to win the confidence of customers by displaying a host of intangible attributes, such as credibility, competence, confidence, integrity, creativity, attitude, and thought leadership.

How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (and Other Social Networks)

by Dave Kerpen

A friend's recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and more, that recommendation can travel farther and faster than ever before. Author Dave Kerpen of Likeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business.

Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments

by Douglas Conant, Mette Norgaard

Douglas R. Conant, CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and co-author Mette Norgaard turn conventional business wisdom on its head, suggesting that the daily interruptions that leaders face in nearly epidemic proportions are actually the moments where the greatest leadership opportunities lie. The TouchPoint model has three components and involves using the head, heart and hands to connect with employees in a way that not only enhances their individual performance, but actually transforms them into...

Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile

by Chuck Martin

The Third Screen defines the strategies and tactics businesses will need in a world gone mobile. Marketers and businesspeople who don't understand the untethered consumer risk becoming obsolete. This breakthrough book links the technological developments of m-commerce to the behavioral changes that accompany them, and reveals how key mobile innovators are becoming the mobile platform providers of the future.

How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It

by James Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner

In this best-selling book, Kouzes and Posner explain why leadership is above all a relationship, with credibility as the cornerstone, and why leaders must "Say what you mean and mean what you say." Building on their more than thirty years of ongoing research, Credibility expands on their seminal work The Leadership Challenge, and shows why credibility remains the foundation of great leadership.